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Politics : ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION THE FIGHT TO KEEP OUR DEMOCRACY -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PROLIFE who wrote (3020)	6/11/2008 4:55:56 PM
From: Tadsamillionaire	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3197

Construction slump sends illegal aliens packing An immigration reform activist says she isn't surprised that the downturn in the construction industry in the U.S. has led to an increase in the unemployment rate among illegal immigrants, compelling some to return to their homelands. The Pew Hispanic Center recently analyzed census and Labor Department data and found that the unemployment rate among foreign-born Hispanics in the first months of this year was 7.5 percent, compared to 5.5 percent over the same period a year ago. Susan Tully, national field director with the Federation for American Immigration Reform, says many of these unemployed Hispanic immigrants are illegal aliens who work in the construction trades. "The illegal alien population have [sic] almost predominately taken over the construction industry. And so, of course, they're going to be largely impacted by that. So the bottom line is they need to go home," Tully contends. In fact, Tully says many illegal aliens are doing just that. "They're self-deporting. Some of them are rethinking -- they're trying to stick it out as long as they can because they know it's harder than it's ever been before for them to get back through the border. So when they decide to go home, this is kind of like they've finally given up," Tully explains. The Pew study also found that, for the first time in five years, foreign-born Hispanics in the U.S. had a higher unemployment rate than native-born Hispanics. onenewsnow.com